This photo storytelling highlights a visit to organized communities in the Kaqchikel region within the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) at the end of July 2025. Through these images, Internacionalista Tas shares their experience, reflecting on their reactions and insights from this inspiring encounter.

White concrete monument with engraved plaques behind a blue wrought-iron fence. Trees are visible around the monument.

Memorial to victims of the massacre at La Pazuela. On the plaque, I saw familiar last names— the family members of AJR representatives I have been organizing with.

View of a mountainous landscape framed by trees and a rustic wooden fence in the foreground. The sky is partly cloudy, and the valley below is covered with green vegetation.

View of the land around Chiapastor, where many massacre survivors live. Near by are the Mixco Viejo ruins, the capital of Chajoma, a 12th century Kaqchikel city.

Meeting with Transitional Justice organizers and survivors of Santa  Anita las Canoas. The daughter of the founder of the justice movement in  that city told us that her mother began organizing only a year after  the massacre, in 1983, when the threat of another massacre or targeted  disappearance still loomed. She went on a speaking tour with NISGUA to  the United States in 2001, the year I was born! It is incredible to feel the length of relationship and connection of the solidarity work here.